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openSUSE:Evergreen

Evergreen is a community effort to prolong maintenance of openSUSE releases beyond their normal life cycle.

The openSUSE Evergreen team was started to keep openSUSE releases alive by issuing security and stability fixes after the regular 18-month lifespan of openSUSE releases. The team has kept selected releases maintained for an additional 18 to 30 months.

The last Evergreen release was openSUSE 13.1. Evergreen support for openSUSE 13.1 ended in November 2016.

Version 11.4

Nothing else should be needed to make the update stack behave exactly as before with patch, delta-rpm support etc. Security patches and critical bug fixes will flow to the Evergreen enabled openSUSE 11.4 simply by occasionally running YaST Online Update or "zypper patch" in a root terminal.

The user/administrator should be mindful that enabled repositories other than those for openSUSE 11.4 oss, non-oss, packman and Evergreen may both introduce instabilities and YaST/zypper reported inconsistencies which will need to be settled as required for continued security and stability.

How to migrate

There are two possible ways to migrate to some Evergreen covered openSUSE version. The first one use online repository and is mostly covered in the following link.
Another way is to use DVD (still can be taken from here) and choose Upgrade during initial screens of Install Process.

Remember - every update can be dangerous to your data, so ALWAYS backup important files.

Communication

Communication currently happens via the mailing list evergreen. This list is mainly meant for packagers and contributors but can be used by users as well. Users should also be able to get help on the common openSUSE list or the openSUSE forums as well.

Team members

Testing

Since we are a small community doing Evergreen we would appreciate if users could join us in testing upcoming updates.
For 11.4 this just means to add the following repository to the software management

Packager information

From Evergreen 11.4 onwards, package updates are performed using the openSUSE maintenance workflow. If you wish to update packages in Evergreen, follow the instructions below.

Version 11.4/13.1

Typically you just want to update some Evergreen package. Then you have to create a maintenance branch, just like regular openSUSE projects. But for Evergreen there are other attributes, where osc should look for affected packages and update project.

Note: beware that the following may not work using the web interface. Packagers are strongly encourages to use osc command line.